PJM Moves Toward Pay-for-Performance Pricing

Beacon Power Corporation a leading provider of fast-response energy storage systems and services to support a more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid, announced that the PJM Interconnection recently began the formal process to implement pay-for-performance regulation pricing in its geographic area, the largest electricity market in the... 

Teams Prepare for Round Two in the 2010-2011 Clean Energy Prize Competition

Ideas for new green-energy businesses ranging from a credit card bonus points program to fund renewable energy projects to a speed bump that generates electricity for roadside electronics will go head to head Jan. 21 in Round-2 competition for the 2010-2011 Clean Energy Prize. The competition, presented by DTE Energy and the University of Michigan... 

Cyclone Power Technologies and Its Partners Generate Strong Product Interest at Power-Gen InternationalCyclone Power Technologies

Cyclone Power Technologies reported exceedingly positive feedback at the recent Power-Gen International conference from customers, manufacturers and suppliers for its waste heat recovery and waste oil power generators offered by Phoenix Power Group LLC (PPG) and Clean Burn Inc. “We felt the show was an absolute success in terms of creating awareness... 

AM Oil Resources & Technology Acquires Build Biodiesel Technology to Create Energy Diversity

AM Oil Resources & Technology Inc., announced that it has just completed design drawings to build a mobile bio-diesel device. The Company’s design is a mobile biodiesel production plant, capable of producing 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of biodiesel per week. The designed plant fits into a standard truck-trailer with dimensions 8 feet wide by 45 feet... 

Goodrich Donates Icing Wind Tunnel to Iowa State University

Goodrich Corporation’s Sensors and Integrated Systems team in Burnsville, Minn. has donated an icing wind tunnel to Iowa State University. The tunnel will be the university’s first wind tunnel to be able to perform icing physics research and will be housed in Iowa State’s wind simulation and testing (WiST) laboratory. The WiST lab... 

B&W Subsidiary Awarded Boiler Refurbishment Contract at Indonesia Power Plant

McDermott International, Inc. announced that a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company, has been awarded a contract to refurbish two B&W Radiant Tower-type boilers at the Suralaya Steam Power Plant on Java Island, Indonesia. B&W will redesign and supply superheater and reheater surface, low NOx combustion systems, pulverizer performance... 

United States Marine Corps Deploys Critical Solutions’ MOJOs to Evaluate Hybrid Power in the Battlefield

Critical Solutions Inc., the designer of rapidly deployable, renewable energy tower systems, announces that the United States Marine Corps (USMC) is using two MOJOs for evaluating the use of hybrid power in support of mission critical communications for forward deployment groups. Patrick Gallagher, Critical Power Solutions International President, stated,... 

High-Efficiency Wind Turbine Generator Manufacturer Danotek Motion Technologies Powering the Wind With $14.5 Million From CMEA Ventures, StatoilHydro and GE

Bolstering its contribution of high-efficiency and cost-saving generators to the $37 billion wind industry, Danotek Motion Technologies has raised $14.5 million from CMEA Ventures, StatoilHydro unit StatoilHydro Venture and GE unit GE Energy Financial Services. Danotek’s generators can spur the wind equipment market by increasing wind turbines’... 

Consumers Energy Advances on Renewable Energy Plan, Secures 28,000 Acres for Wind Energy Development in Mason and Tuscola Counties

Consumers Energy has secured more than 28,000 acres of easements in Tuscola and Mason counties for potential wind generation development and is starting the process of testing sites. Construction started today on four meteorological towers in Mason County and three towers in Tuscola County. Construction of the towers, which are about 180 feet tall,... 

SSTP Eliminates Need for Fossil Fuels for Production of Electricity

Sustainable Power Corp. outlines the important facts underlying SSTP’s vision and solution to solving the problem of utilizing fossil fuels for production of electricity and the benefits of employing SSTP’s revolutionary technology of converting solid municipal waste to natural gas which is used to power electric-producing generators. Every...